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Turning to Political Violence

The Emergence of Terrorism

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Turning to Political Violence

By: Marc Sageman
Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
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What motivates those who commit violence in the name of political beliefs? Terrorism today is not solely the preserve of Islam, nor is it a new phenomenon. It emerges from social processes and conditions common to societies throughout modern history, and the story of its origins spans centuries, encompassing numerous radical and revolutionary movements.

Marc Sageman is a forensic psychiatrist and government counter-terrorism consultant whose bestselling books provide a detailed, damning corrective to commonplace yet simplistic notions of Islamist terrorism. In a comprehensive new book, Turning to Political Violence, Sageman examines the history and theory of political violence in the West. He excavates primary sources surrounding key instances of modern political violence, looking for patterns across a range of case studies spanning the French Revolution, through late 19th - and early 20th-century revolutionaries and anarchists in Russia and the United States, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the start of World War I. These accounts offer complex and intricate portraits of individuals engaged in struggles with identity, injustice, and revenge who may be empowered by a sense of love and self-sacrifice.

Arguing against easy assumptions that attribute terrorism to extremist ideology, and counter to mainstream academic explanations such as rational choice theory, Sageman develops a theoretical model based on the concept of social identity. His analysis focuses on the complex dynamic between the state and disaffected citizens that leads some to disillusionment and moral outrage - and a few to mass murder. Sageman's account offers a paradigm-shifting perspective on terrorism that yields counter-intuitive implications for the ways liberal democracies can and should confront political violence.

©2017 Marc Sageman (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Criminal & Forensic Psychology Freedom & Security History & Theory Political Science Politics & Government Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Terrorism War & Crisis War Socialism Thought-Provoking French Revolution

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